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The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead but we're already way past the point where any discussion worth anything can be had o…

Great point! At this point the Dead Internet Theory isn't a conspiracy – it's a roadmap. It's worth noting he distinction between "authentic" and "synthetic" online spaces is erodi…

It is glass

I don't think there's that much thought involved, they're just aping their Republican heroes.

"Make Europe Great Again". Seriously, that is the new slogan for the Hungarian EU presidency. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/europe/hungary-make-europ...

You're just trying to be contrarian for imaginary internet points. Satya is right about this one.

To reduce the issue, "Let's burn books! It's ok because you can just buy them on the Apple Books Store for the iPad"

If you need only LoRa connectivity, Mikrotik has options for that. Then you can hook up bog standard IP devices to those.

> As of June 2023 Starlink expenses for Ukraine are covered by the US Department of Defense through a contract with SpaceX. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/penta…

An Operation Mincemeat of our time.

You're allowed to admire the technical implementation while denouncing the business model at the same time.

The troll toll? > Just putting the thought out there. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

I wonder who's the author, and if they did a Rodenberry on the theme (Rodenberry, in addition to everything else, was the author of lyrics for the Star Trek theme. Despite them nev…

I remember that episode! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx I was listening to it on a bus and screaming inside because I had that mp3 sitting in my library, obtained y…

> the solution is easy. Adapt your life to follow that Those pesky employers are such traditionalists, though.

Neal Stephenson's Fall [1] is by far not his best book, however, the first part has a chilling depiction of societal divide into Ameristan and, for lack of a better word, the blue …

Only the US, Liberia, and Myanmar have a complete grasp of large numbers like, for example, fifty-seven.

Going off on a tangent, it's actually not that much trees wasted on paper money. Some of it is made of plastic but a lot of it should be called rather cloth money - at least the US…

End up? If you listen to the podcast, you'll know that the episode was inspired by actual already happened real life events. In fact the real story was even more infuriating. https…

Novak Djokovic also credits absorption of energies from the allegedly most ancient pyramids on Earth in Bosnia and Herzegovina to his success. They're supposedly built anywhere fro…

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iOS already has a Local Network Access permission, it's probably only a matter of time until it appears in macOS as well.

That's called foveated rendering, and it's exactly what the Apple headset does, they mention it here: https://developer.apple.com/visionos/

Gruber claims that it has the exact same FOV as actual human vision, and no discernible pixels. https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_visi...

> We have a term for this: Privatized profits and socialized losses We have an even older term for that: The tragedy of the commons [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of…